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Task Force to Study Special Education Services and Funding

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The Task Force to Study Special Education Services and Funding was created by the Connecticut General Assembly to examine a variety of issues related to special education. Specifically, the Task Force looked at the state's severe special education staffing shortage, the lack of resources for special education, the lack of equity in special education across the state, and the failure to close the state's achievement gap.

Special Education Task Force Final Report Special Education Task Force Midterm Report Special Education Task Force Presentation to SpEd Committee
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Education Funding Special Education

Connecticut Revenue and Budget Data Reports (Office of Fiscal Analysis)

Published sporadically from 1986-2009, the Connecticut General Assembly's Office of Fiscal Analysis' Connecticut Revenue and Budget Data report (also referred to as the Tax Facts report) was designed as a "reference tool for legislators interested in putting the state's revenue and budget picture into historical perspective." Each report contains data for 20 years or more regarding "major state taxes and some of the basic expenditure items most often asked for by state legislators." The reports also contain sections discussing "important issues and major state and municipal programs or funds of interest to legislators."

OFA Tax Facts 2009 OFA Tax Facts 2006 OFA Tax Facts 2002 OFA Tax Facts 2001 OFA Tax Facts 2000
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State Budget State Revenue & Spending

Research Bulletin: District Reference Groups, 2006 (CT State Department of Education)

District Reference Groups (DRGs) is a classification system in which districts that have public school students with similar socioeconomic status (SES) and need are grouped together. The 2006 DRGs are the fourth generation of the State Department of Education’s classification of school districts. The groups are based on seven variables (income, education, occupation, family structure, poverty, home language, and district enrollment). All variables were based upon families with children attending public school.

District Reference Groups
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Student Enrollment/Demographics

Research Report: Collective Bargaining Agreements Presented to the General Assembly, 1991-2001 (Office of Legislative Research)

Research report from the Connecticut General Assembly's nonpartisan Office of Legislative Research that identifies the state employee collective bargaining agreements that the General Assembly accepted or rejected between 1991 and 2001. Of the 128 agreements presented between 1991-2001, the General Assembly approved 108 and rejected 16. Legislative materials were unavailable on the outcome of 4 agreements.

Collective Bargaining Agreements Presented to the General Assembly, 1991-2001
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Pensions

Horton v. Meskill (1977)

Connecticut Supreme Court ruling holding that the right to education in Connecticut is so basic and fundamental that any intrusion on the right must be strictly scrutinized. The Court said that public school students are entitled to equal enjoyment of the right to education and a system of school financing that relied on local property tax revenues without regard to disparities in town wealth, and that lacked significant equalizing state support, was unconstitutional. Connecticut Supreme Court also held the creation of a constitutional system for education financing is a job for the legislature and not the courts.

Horton v. Meskill
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Education Funding Court Cases